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Aboriginal people on a side of town designated for ‘ nonwhites ’. Many of their descendants remain in Marree as does their heritage displayed in a replica mosque as it stood in Marree in the 1880s , this town was the first in Australia to see such a construction for all of the cameleers were Muslim , although in reality none can be assumed to have been Afghani .
Where the mosque stands is also a small open museum of relics of the past , buildings , equipment , trucks , trains , and even what is left of the station .
With the creation of the town in 1883 came a police station and post office , the general store and hotel had been opened a year earlier and both remain to this day in
affectionately steeped in history the Ghan opened the outback creating towns like Marree and beyond
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